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Kenny Kemp

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San Diego, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Spielberg, Hitchcock, Conrad, McMurtry, Turow, King, Anne Tyler, Silve ...more

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I am a restless soul who has always had the desire to hear and tell a good story. I majored in film production in college, got sidetracked by law school and a few years practicing law, returned to graduate film school, worked in Hollywood for several years as a screenwriter and filmmaker, stumbled into writing novels, and got unbelievably lucky when my memoir Dad Was a Carpenter won the international self-published book award in 1999, resulting in a three-book deal with publishing giant HarperCollins. I continue to self-publish because I love the hands-on nature of it. I speak to writers' groups and book clubs as I travel around the U.S. promoting my books. When I'm not writing, I love to fly my plane, listen to jazz, compose schmaltzy love ...more

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From Boys to Men

OVER THE PAST 18 MONTHS I've been working on a book about WWII and have come to appreciate to a greater degree than ever before the evil that is present in our world, the cost of overcoming it, and the greatness of the American spirit, which so often has come to the rescue of people who could not or would not help themselves. Young American boys who enlisted in the military to travel halfway a Read more of this blog post »

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Kenny Kemp’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 373 ratings · 129 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lightland: A Soul's Journey 3.56 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Hated Heaven: A Novel of Love After Death 3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dad Was a Carpenter: Blueprints for a Meaningful Life 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Welcoming Door (Parables of the Carpenter, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wise Man Returns really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oki's Island: A Hero's Journey 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying with the Flak Pak 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Carpenter of Galilee & The Welcoming Door 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parables for Today by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Farland (Goodreads Author), Marilyn Brown 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dad, Are You There? 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kenny’s Quotes

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
― William Faulkner

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“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”
― Michael Crichton

tags: books, on-writing, rewritten, written

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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: creative-process, failure, motivational, persistence, writing

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